An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and...

An interrogative clause is a clause whose form is typically associated with question-like meanings. For instance, the English sentence "Is Hannah sick...

distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them. Rhetorical questions, for instance, are interrogative in form...

of interrogative words. It is especially common for a form that otherwise means what to be borrowed as a complementizer, but other interrogative words...

reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative and interrogative pronouns, and indefinite pronouns.: 1–34  The use of pronouns often...

the free dictionary. What or WHAT may refer to: What, an English interrogative word "What?", one of the Five Ws used in journalism What! (film), also...

town. In syntactic pied-piping, a focused expression (such as an interrogative word) pulls its host phrase with it when it moves to its new position in...

The English interrogative words (also known as "wh words" or "wh forms") are words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and...

invariable word. Words used as relative pronouns often originally had other functions. For example, the English which is also an interrogative word. This suggests...

English interrogative word which (command), an operating system command Which?, a UK charity and its magazine English relative clauses Interrogative clause...

detail below. All of the interrogative words used in Tagalog are not related to Spanish, with the exception of kumustá. The word kumustá is derived from...

to: How (greeting), a word used in some misrepresentations of Native American/First Nations speech How, an interrogative word in English grammar How...

other questions, formed with interrogative words such as where, what, how, etc. An exception applies when the interrogative word is the subject or part of...

there? where what is the interrogative word, can is the auxiliary, and you is the subject. In such cases, the interrogative word is said to be fronted,...

SV-clauses can also be interrogative or exclamative, however, given the appropriate intonation contour and/or the appearance of a question word, e.g. a. The pig...

or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between what and...

pronounced differently from w Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩ wh-word, a name for an interrogative word such as where and when wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon...

eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. In the fifth century, Syriac Bible...

social standing and respect. Some word classes are universally closed, however, including demonstratives and interrogative words. Part-of-speech tagging Sliding...

set of English interrogative words but function differently as relative words. The subordinator that is widely regarded as a relative word, though one with...

entire sentence or subsentence: Yes, or that as in "That is true". An interrogative pro-form is a pro-form that denotes the (unknown) item in question and...

VSO in declarative sentences, it always puts interrogative words or phrases first in interrogative word questions; if it has dominant order SOV in declarative...

perceived (and spelt) as beginning with plain /h/. This occurred with the interrogative word how (Proto-Germanic *hwō, Old English hū). A similar process of labialization...

with an interrogative word (interrogative pro-forms or kas (yes/no-question), eks (yes-question), ega (no-question)), followed by the SVO word order (in...

has a canonical word order of SOV (subject–object–verb), as do other Dravidian languages. A rare OSV word order occurs in interrogative clauses when the...

an interrogative word like who, what, when, where, why, etc.), the question particles are вэ and бэ, depending on the last sound in the previous word. Yes/No...

technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words. Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or...

dependent clauses are ja, i, and jes. Kak is used as an interrogative word. The general word order is SVO, with some alterations for questions and sentences...

Questions are formed by subject–auxiliary inversion (unless the interrogative word is part of the subject). If there is otherwise no auxiliary, the verb...

question focuses on an unknown piece of information, often using an interrogative word (e.g., who, what, when etc.). The corresponding answer provides the...